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Richard’s memory for architectural detail was extraordinary and many pictures celebrate great buildings but also the people living their lives around them. When he was 17 and the family moved from Bradford to Ilkley he missed the inner city and its busyness at first but soon came to love the quiet of small town or village and how it fitted into the land. Later, the experience of ports and docks excited him again, and the differences associated with this way of life for the inhabitants.
Chatsworth to Represent Sheffield at Play (1961)
oil on canvas - 304.8h × 426.7w (cm)
This is one of two murals commissioned for the annexe of the Teaching Hospital in Sheffield. That has been knocked down to make way for a more modern and spacious building and unfortunately because of their huge size these two canvases are rolled up and in storage. Nowhere has yet been found for them to be hung and seen by the Sheffield people which is a shame.
York Festival Triptych (1956)
oil on canvas - 130.8h × 196.2w (cm)
This is one of Richard’s largest pictures and the detail is breath-taking. The actual Festival theatre is taking place in the top left hand corner in the Abbey ruins. Meanwhile the street Miracle play crossing a bridge is on the move and free to viewers of all sorts.
Bradford (1918)
oil on thin board - 15.5h × 15.3w (cm)
This early oil painting gives a very fresh and vivid feeling of a street in Bradford in the snow in the early years of the 20th century towards the end of WW1.
The Lighthouse (c1992)
oil on board - 48h × 51w (cm)
Fall of Snow (1985)
- 16.5h × 24.1w (cm)
Trying to Close the Brolly (1985)
oil on board - 21h × 14.5w (cm)
Dredger, Early Morning (1984)
oil on board - 22.9h × 31.8w (cm)
Stampede (1984)
pencil and wash on paper - 28h × 61w (cm)
The Blue House (c1984)
- 40.6h × 50.8w (cm)
Interior with Window (1983)
pencil on paper - 24h × 47w (cm)
Northern Procession (1983)
oil on board - 61h × 73.5w (cm)
Bradford from Hawksworth (1982)
oil on board - 20.3h × 43.2w (cm)
The Cricket Match, Ilkley (c1982)
oil on board - 39h × 60w (cm)
Northern Hill Town (1981)
oil on board - 22.9h × 101.6w (cm)
The Sand Pit (1981)
oil on board - 41h × 61w (cm)
Wrose Hill, Bradford (1981)
oil on board - 30h × 45w (cm)
Shipyard, Falmouth (1979)
oil on board - 13h × 27w (cm)
Commercial Landscape (1978)
pen on paper - 32h × 70w (cm)
Sunday Morning, Huddersfield (1977)
oil on board - 61h × 71w (cm)
Workers Emerging (1976)
oil on board - 33h × 28w (cm)
Portsmouth – from a drawing of 1942 (1975)
- 35.6h × 61w (cm)
Mischief Night (1975)
oil on canvas - 78.8h × 122w (cm)
Quayside, Weymouth (1975)
oil on board - 14h × 50.1w (cm)
Northern Town (1974)
oil on board - 12h × 52w (cm)
Buoy with Kite (1974)
oil on board - 39h × 76w (cm)
Lynton Mill (c1974)
- 50.8h × 76.2w (cm)
Landscape near Haworth (1973)
oil on panel - 51h × 61w (cm)
Staithes, Yorkshire (c1973)
oil on board - 17h × 24w (cm)
Tanker off Cowes (1972)
oil on panel - 33h × 35.5w (cm)
Cowes Week from Providence House (1972)
oil on panel - 76h × 122w (cm)
The Procession, Yorkshire (1970)
oil on board - 43h × 98w (cm)
Village by the Sea (1970)
oil on canvas - 53.5h × 68.5w (cm)
Wreck and Landslip, Yorkshire Coast (1968)
oil on canvas - 41h × 61w (cm)
Son Solennel (1967)
oil on canvas - 35.5h × 61w (cm)
Threadneedle Street 1855 (1966)
- 101.6h × 127w (cm)
From Haworth, Yorkshire (1965)
oil on canvas - 58.5h × 111.5w (cm)
Bolton (1965)
- 25.4h × 40.6w (cm)
Northern Town (1965)
oil on board - 25.5h × 33.3w (cm)
Farm in Swaledale (c1965)
oil on canvas - 49h × 57w (cm)
Junk - Sketch-0342 (1960s)
felt tip on paper - 18h × 23w (cm)
Haworth, Yorkshire (1964)
oil on board - 27.94h × 35.56w (cm)
Camberwell (1963)
oil on board - 26h × 21w (cm)
Bowden Hill (1963)
oil on canvas - 51h × 76w (cm)
Dream Landscape (1960s)
ink on paper
Whitby, North Yorkshire, to Represent Sheffield on Holiday (1961)
oil on canvas - 304.8h × 426.7w (cm)
Sherston (1961)
oil on board - 52h × 78w (cm)
A Refinery Scene (The Seven Sisters) (1960)
oil on board - 50h × 120w (cm)
Thunderstorm over London (1960)
oil on canvas - 40.5h × 101.5w (cm)
Whitby, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield (1960)
oil on board - 69h × 101w (cm)
The Rose (1960)
oil on board - 90h × 70w (cm)
The Girl with the Drum, Fleetwood (1960)
oil on board - 50.2h × 69.9w (cm)
Departure (1959)
oil on canvas - 78.7h × 121.9w (cm)
Ancient Landscape seen from the Top of Greenhill (1959)
oil on board - 40h × 50w (cm)
The Guy (1958)
oil on canvas - 127h × 101.6w (cm)
Richmond, Yorkshire (1958)
oil on canvas - 61h × 51w (cm)
Passing Train (1958)
oil on canvas - 41h × 51w (cm)
Yorkshire Cornfield (1957)
- 40.6h × 50.8w (cm)
Southampton (1957)
oil on canvas - 41h × 51w (cm)
Northern Landscape (1957)
oil on canvas - 102h × 128w (cm)
Rouen Resurgent (1956)
oil on canvas - 51h × 102w (cm)
Rouen, 1956 (1956)
- 61h × 50.8w (cm)
Rouen (1956)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
La Porte Guillaume-Lion, Rouen (1956)
oil on panel - 51h × 40.5w (cm)
Beached Trawler (1955)
oil on canvas - 51h × 76w (cm)
The Lighthouse (c1955)
oil on canvas - 40.7h × 50.8w (cm)
Regatta (c1955)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
Doncaster Races, St Leger (1954)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
Queen of the Sea, 1911 (1954)
oil on canvas - 122h × 182.8w (cm)
York from the Walls (1954)
oil on canvas - 63h × 76w (cm)
Coronation Procession - Admiralty Arch from Trafalgar Square (1953)
oil on canvas laid on board - 34.5h × 77w (cm)
The Mariner's Return (1953)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76w (cm)
Cottage In Wales (1953)
oil on canvas - 41h × 51w (cm)
Coast Scene with Rainbow (1953)
oil on canvas - 122.5h × 183.5w (cm)
Thunderstorm over Southampton (c1953)
- 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
Richmond Castle (1950s)
oil on canvas - 35.5h × 61w (cm)
Gay Lane (1952)
oil on canvas - 76h × 63.5w (cm)
The Mummers (1952)
oil on board - 88h × 92w (cm)
Study for Gay Lane (c1952)
- 17.8h × 15.2w (cm)
Paper Boats (1951)
oil on panel - 19h × 20w (cm)
Episode at Lyme Regis (1951)
oil on cardboard - 20h × 25w (cm)
The Mummers (1951)
oil on board - 21h × 15.9w (cm)
Rainbow and Pony, York (1951)
oil on canvasboard - 15.2h × 20.9w (cm)
Hot Day in the Village (1951)
oil on panel - 20.3h × 17.8w (cm)
Corfe Castle (c1950)
- 51h × 61w (cm)
A. Vincent, Son and Grandsons (1949)
- 50.8h × 76.2w (cm)
The Guy (1948)
oil on canvas - 61h × 51w (cm)
Remembrance of Things Past (1947)
oil on canvas - 50.5h × 74.5w (cm)
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, by Candlelight (1947)
oil on panel - 119h × 89.5w (cm)
Trinity College: the Wren Library and River Cam (1946)
oil on canvas - 62.3h × 75w (cm)
King’s College Looking Eastwards from the Backs: Early Summer (1946)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
His Majesty King George VI conferring the Order of Knighthood upon Sir Henry Marten, Provost, on the steps of College Chapel (1946)
oil on canvas - 100.5h × 125.5w (cm)
The Hammock - with acknowledgements to Wadsworth (c1943)
oil on gesso on (plywood) panel - 25h × 35w (cm)
Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks, 1941 (1942)
oil on canvas - 78.7h × 127w (cm)
Studies for the Blitz on Portsmouth (1942)
pencil on paper - 9.5h × 14w (cm)
Mousehole, Cornwall (1942)
oil on ? - 51h × 61w (cm)
HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour (1942)
oil on canvas - 76.2h × 127w (cm)
Three Bridges (Whitby) (c1942)
oil on canvas - 61h × 106.5w (cm)
A Motor Boat of the British Power Boat Company, Hythe (1941)
oil on canvas - 68.5h × 81.5w (cm)
The British Power Boat Company (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.2h × 127w (cm)
Robin Hood's Bay in Wartime (1940)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
December, Work Suspended (1940)
oil on canvas - 101.6h × 127w (cm)
Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940 (1940)
oil on canvas - 76.2h × 101.6w (cm)
Antwerp (1939)
oil on canvas - 101.6h × 127w (cm)
Continental Port (1939)
oil on canvas - 101.5h × 127w (cm)
The Ouse at York (1939)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
Dorset Cove (1939)
oil on canvas - 100h × 126w (cm)
Clifford's Tower, York (1939)
oil on canvas - 51.75h × 61w (cm)
Thatching in Hampshire (c1939)
- 41h × 61w (cm)
Southampton (1938)
- 45.7h × 127w (cm)
Staithes, Yorkshire (1938)
oil on canvas - 76h × 101.3w (cm)
Cornish Port (1938)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
Red Roofs, Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire (1938)
oil on canvas - 40h × 50w (cm)
Quayside, Dorset (1937)
oil on canvas - 51h × 75w (cm)
Boats at Lyme Regis (1937)
oil on canvas - 50.6h × 60.9w (cm)
The Red Tanker (1937)
- 51h × 61w (cm)
Low Tide, Porthleven (1937)
oil on canvas - 50.4h × 178w (cm)
Coverack, Cornwall (1937)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76w (cm)
Constantine, Cornwall (1937)
oil on canvas - 45.7h × 125.7w (cm)
At the Quay (1936)
oil on panel - 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
Village Street (1936)
- 61h × 20.3w (cm)
Cornish Coast, Red House (1936)
oil on panel - 40.6h × 50.8w (cm)
Embarkation (1936)
- 51h × 61w (cm)
Life-boat House, Coverack (1936)
oil on board - 36h × 42w (cm)
Chesil Beach from Portland (1936)
oil on canvas, pasted to board - 49.5h × 60w (cm)
Collier Brig, Falmouth (1936)
oil on canvas - 41h × 51w (cm)
Robin Hood's Bay (1935)
oil on canvas - 86.36h × 130.81w (cm)
Dry Dock, Southampton (1935)
oil on canvas - 61.5h × 75w (cm)
Durgan, Helford River (1935)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
The Ship Inn (1935)
oil on canvas - 86.4h × 130.8w (cm)
In Falmouth Harbour (1935)
oil on canvas - 60h × 81.5w (cm)
Palace House (1935)
oil on canvas - 61h × 74w (cm)
Whitby, St. Mary's Church from Sandsend Beach (c1935)
oil on canvas - 13h × 13w (cm)
The Slip, Robin Hood's Bay (1934)
oil on canvas - 49.5h × 61w (cm)
The Cod and Lobster, Staithes (1934)
oil on canvas - 40.6h × 50.8w (cm)
Portland Quarries (1934)
oil on canvas - 49.5h × 74w (cm)
Whitby, Yorkshire (1934)
- 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
The Blue Barge, Weymouth (1934)
oil on canvas - 87h × 131w (cm)
Portland Lighthouse (c1934)
- 40.6h × 50.8w (cm)
Still Life, Lyme Regis (1933)
oil on canvas - 47.5h × 32.5w (cm)
The Light House (1933)
oil on panel - 19h × 25w (cm)
Lyme (1933)
oil on canvas - 31h × 61w (cm)
Tunny Fishing, Whitby (1933)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76.5w (cm)
Addingham Church (c1933)
- 20.3h × 25.4w (cm)
From the Old Walls, Lyme Regis (1932)
oil on board - 57h × 74w (cm)
Unloading Cement, Lyme (1932)
oil on canvas - 58.5h × 86.5w (cm)
Beer from the Sea (1932)
oil on canvas - 37.5h × 52.7w (cm)
Old Walls, Lyme (1932)
oil on canvas - 43h × 52.8w (cm)
Belle Cliff, Lyme Regis (1932)
oil on canvas - 48.5h × 33w (cm)
The Cobb Arms, Lyme Regis (c1932)
- 33h × 43.2w (cm)
Lyme Regis (1930)
oil on canvas - 40.8h × 50.8w (cm)
The Pink House (1930)
oil on canvas - 40.5h × 50.5w (cm)
The Cat and Mouse (1929)
pencil on paper - 38.1h × 27.9w (cm)
Nativity (c1928)
pencil on paper - 30h × 19w (cm)
Ilkley (1922)
watercolour on paper
From My Attic Window, 8 Mornington Villas, Bradford (1919)
watercolour on paper
Searching for a Target (1916)
watercolour and ink on paper